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Gothic nightmares : Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic imagination / Martin Myrone ; with essays by Christopher Frayling and Marina Warner ; and additional catalogue contributions by Christopher Frayling and Mervyn Heard.

Title
Gothic nightmares : Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic imagination / Martin Myrone ; with essays by Christopher Frayling and Marina Warner ; and additional catalogue contributions by Christopher Frayling and Mervyn Heard.
Author
Myrone, Martin
Publication
London : Tate ; New York : Distributed in the United States and Canada by Harry N. Abrams, 2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Frayling, Christopher
  • Warner, Marina, 1946-
  • Heard, Mervyn
  • Tate Britain (Gallery)
Description
224 p. : ill. (chiefly col.). ports.; 30 cm.
Summary
Gothic nightmares explorers the taste for weird, supernatural and fantastic themes in British art between 1770 and 1830.
Alternative Title
Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic imagination
Subject
  • Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825 > Exhibitions > 2006 > London (England)
  • Blake, William, 1757-1827 > Exhibitions > 2006 > London (England)
  • Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825 > Expositions
  • Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825 > Exhibitions
  • Blake, William, 1757-1827 > Exhibitions
  • Füssli, Johann Heinrich (Künstler) > Alptraum <Motiv> > Ausstellung > London <2006>
  • 1700-1799
  • Gothic revival (Art) > Europe > Exhibitions
  • Horror in art > Exhibitions
  • Nightmares in art > Exhibitions
  • Art, British > 18th century > Exhibitions
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs
Note
  • Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Gothic Nightmares: Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic imagination" held at the Tate Britain, Ldondon, 15 February-1 May, 2006.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-220) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Fuseli's The nightmare : somewhere between the sublime and the ridiculous / Christopher Frayling -- Invented plots : the enchanted puppets and fairy doubles of Henry Fuseli / Marina Warner -- Fuseli to Frankenstein : the visual arts in the context of the gothic / Martin Myrone -- Catalogue -- The nightmare : Fuseli and the art of horror -- Perverse classicism -- Superheroes -- Gothic gloomth -- Witches and apparitions -- Fairies and fatal women -- Revolution, revelation and apocalypse -- The nightmare in modern culture.
ISBN
1854375822
OCLC
  • 62344949
  • SCSB-11803940
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library